Frank Hangler
Co-founder at Plot + Scatter
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Hangler is a co-founder and data-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building interactive data products and consultancies from Vancouver. He leads Plot + Scatter, blending UX/UI-driven data design with technical development to help organizations understand and communicate insights for real-world impact. Frank pairs an Oxford MSc in Social Science of the Internet with a Computer Science background from UBC, giving him a rare mix of social-contextual thinking and practical engineering. He contributes to open-source tooling—improving document text-manipulation in the widely used officer R package—demonstrating attention to backend detail that supports user-facing data experiences. Known for finding elegant ways for people to engage with data, he thrives at the intersection of design, research, and code.
12 years of coding experience
MSc in Social Science of the Internet, MSc Social Science of the Internet, Distinction, MSc in Social Science of the Internet, MSc Social Science of the Internet, Distinction at University of OxfordB.C.S., Computer Science, B.C.S., Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
390reputation
9kreached
9answers
1question
Github Skills (12)
xml10
msword10
wordperfect10
r10
cran9
netcore6
compatibility6
internet-explorer6
date-format6
try-catch6
render6
roxygen6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
davidgohel/officer
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
:cop: officer: office documents from R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 19 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on enhancing the `officer` package by implementing text manipulation features within Microsoft Word documents. Their contributions included adding functionality to replace text within a document and at a cursor. They also refined the text replacement logic, providing the user with options for how the text should be changed and where it should be changed.
r-packagermarkdownms-office-documentscranpowerpoint
hangler/mobile-broadband
Feb 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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